After watching ex-teammate Dion Prestia win a premiership with Richmond, May said he had envied his friend’s experience.
“Not so much my own future, I love it here on the Gold Coast, it’s a great place to live and we have a really great club set up here,” he said.
“But I know, I went to the grand final last year and watched my best mate Dion Prestia win a flag and there was envy but I was also happy for him because I know how much success meant to him.
“And for him to do it in his first year (was) probably a fluke really but the Tigers are rolling now and he looks destined for more success. But there was a little bit of me thinking ‘oh I wish I was our there’ — but at the end of the day I was happy for a mate to live out his dream.”
Co-captain Tom Lynch’s future continues to be the centre of speculation, with the star forward potentially destined to return to Victoria as a free agent at the end of the season.
Earlier on Wednesday, a frank Stuart Dew said the chances of Lynch staying on the Gold Coast were “not looking great.”
May said he was still optimistic Lynch would hang around.
“I have that glimmer of hope that he’ll still be here,” he said.
“He just had surgery yesterday but I suppose when it does get to this time of the year and he hasn’t re-signed, you sort of think maybe he’s going.
“But he certainly hasn’t told us that yet so I’m still optimistic he’ll stay.”
May said he believed both the Suns and Lynch would like to have the latter’s future established sooner rather than later.
“Yeah (we would) and I think Tom would as well. He’s been a fantastic servant for the club,” he said.
“He’s testing out free agency at the moment and he does care about this footy club, if he does leave it’s to pursue other opportunities. But that would only help us and him and … get trades set up or attack the draft when we might need a key forward.
“So sooner rather than later would be great but he is still recovering from knee surgery, so I don’t expect an answer from him right now.”
May said the Suns’ poor form this year — the club has lost 11 games in a row and recorded just three wins so far — didn’t help their cause in regards to retaining Lynch.
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